2017
DOI: 10.3989/redc.2017.4.1500
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Google Scholar como una fuente de evaluación científica: una revisión bibliográfica sobre errores de la base de datos

Abstract: Google Scholar (GS) is an academic search engine and discovery tool launched by Google (now Alphabet) in November 2004. The fact that GS provides the number of citations received by each article from all other indexed articles (regardless of their source) has led to its use in bibliometric analysis and academic assessment tasks, especially in social sciences and humanities. However, the existence of errors, sometimes of great magnitude, has provoked criticism from the academic community. The aim of this articl… Show more

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“…Thus, the main drawbacks of GS are the lack of transparency, stability, precision and control. Moreover, one of the main setbacks in trying to use GS for large-scale analysis is the unavailability of its data export [23,[31][32][33]. By simple experiment, it was also shown that GS can be easily manipulated using falsified data [34].…”
Section: Main Bibliographic Databasesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, the main drawbacks of GS are the lack of transparency, stability, precision and control. Moreover, one of the main setbacks in trying to use GS for large-scale analysis is the unavailability of its data export [23,[31][32][33]. By simple experiment, it was also shown that GS can be easily manipulated using falsified data [34].…”
Section: Main Bibliographic Databasesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3. In some cases, Google Scholar is not able to successfully merge all the different versions of an article that can be found on the Web Orduna-Malea, Martín-Martín, & Delgado López-Cózar, 2017), and as a result, two or more entries might exist in Google Scholar for documents that are actually the same. This might happen for a number of reasons, but is more frequent in journals that publish several versions of the same document (i.e.…”
Section: Limitations and Further Lines Of Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A primary indicator of quality is taken as the number of Scopus citations (Mingers and Leydesdorff, 2015;Yazdani et al, 2015), which is used in many studies in the scientometrics area. The number of citations in Google Scholar has not been used due to the controversy in this academic search engine (Orduna-Malea et al, 2017). In any case, Google Scholar offers an original and different vision of the most influential academic documents (measured from the perspective of their citation count) (Martín-Martín et al, 2016).…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%